reflecting telescope

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A telescope in which light from the object is gathered and focused by a concave mirror, with the resulting image magnified by the eyepiece.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A telescope which produces a magnified image by reflecting light through a series of mirrors housed in a tube, using a large curved mirror to gather the light and one or more additional mirrors to transmit the light to an eyepiece.

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• noun optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece